Introduce get_hints.py and combine_hints.py in order to make
the interpretation of basic block counts into hints more
configurable and explicit, as well as allowing more accurate
and consistent methods of combining multiple profiles.
get_hints.py allows for the minimum count and threshold ratio
values to be easily altered for different profiles, while
combine_hints.py allows the hints produced from different
benchmarks and threshold values to be easily and sensibly
combined.
Simply summing together basic block counts from different
benchmarks could previously lead to a longer running benchmark
overshadowing multiple shorter benchmarks with conflicting
hints.
Allowing alteration of the current threshold values gives a
doubling of performance, while the new method of combining
distinct profiles can double the performance improvement of the
secondary benchmark while losing as little as 4% of the
improvement gained in the primary benchmark.
Design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OhwZnIZom47IX0lyceyt-S9i8AApDB0UqJdvQD6NuKQ/edit?usp=sharing
Bug: v8:10470
Change-Id: I1c09d1eabfdda5ed6794592e2c13ff8b461be361
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/3545181
Reviewed-by: Tobias Tebbi <tebbi@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: George Wort <george.wort@arm.com>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#80282}
